Liver Fibrosis and Hepatitis B Coinfection among ART Naïve HIV-Infected Patients at a Tertiary Level Hospital in Northwestern Tanzania: A Cross-Sectional Study

Background. Liver fibrosis which is a common complication of chronic hepatitis B infection is rarely diagnosed in low-resource countries due to limited capacity to perform biopsy studies. Data on the utilization of noninvasive techniques which are feasible for diagnosis of liver fibrosis in these se...

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Main Authors: Semvua B. Kilonzo, Daniel W. Gunda, Flora Kashasha, Bonaventura C. Mpondo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2017-01-01
Series:Journal of Tropical Medicine
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/5629130